Is MoS a horror movie version of Superman?

[atp]

In another thread, CAM mentioned that he thought MoS was like a Superman through the filter of a horror movie. That's a really good description actually!

There's a lot of stuff that actually feels like it came from a horror movie. There's an early shot of Zod with weird lighting and a scar that looks like Frankenstein's monster!



And not to mention all the other creepy stuff like the whole "You Are Not Alone" broadcast on the TV. (By the way, it was also coming through the RSS feeds!)

Also:

- The design of Zod's ship looked like something out of alien.
-Superman coughing up blood.
- Eerie looking heat vision.
- Skulls and frozen corpses.
- Superman himself looks pretty scary with his eye beams, especially when he was cauterising Lois's wounds.
- Faora's arrival scene on earth and her costume look like something out of a 1950s alien/horror movie.

Anyone else think that MoS was in fact a horror film posing as a Superman movie?

[eccentricbeing]

I wouldn't say it's a horror movie posed as a Superman movie. But I do see 1950s sci-fi influences in the movie. Like a serious version of Mars Attacks. Isn't that how the comics were back in that time though?

[EnriqueH]

The more I think about it, the more I think ATP nailed what was so disappointing about the 2nd half: the realistic portrayal of an alien coming to earth combined with Jonathan's belief that the world wouldn't accept his son.

And then they do nothing with it.

[Deleted]

MoS is trying to blend so many genres that I don't think it knows what it wants to be. Is it fantasy? Sci-fi? Superhero origin? Bit of horror? Romance?

[crazy_asian_man]

Sept 21, 2013 17:27:54 GMT -5 @bamabrad said:

MoS is trying to blend so many genres that I don't think it knows what it wants to be. Is it fantasy? Sci-fi? Superhero origin? Bit of horror? Romance?

I don't mind if a movie tries to be a hybrid- in fact, some of the movies I love best are hybrids- but I feel that the emphasis might have a been a bit too much of: 'no matter what, let's play each moment differently than the Donner version, whether it's as good as the original choice or not.'

I think this is one case where it would NOT have hurt to have other screenwriters come in to add other elements to Goyer's script. Usually I feel like adding other screenwriters is a guaranteed way to doom a film from being any good- but in Goyer's case, over and over again I see great ideas that usually get buried under one dark monotonous tone and too-little character dimension.

[ye5man]

I saw MOS as pure sci-fi

[atp]

Sept 21, 2013 18:03:23 GMT -5 crazy_asian_man said:

Sept 21, 2013 17:27:54 GMT -5 @bamabrad said:

MoS is trying to blend so many genres that I don't think it knows what it wants to be. Is it fantasy? Sci-fi? Superhero origin? Bit of horror? Romance?

I don't mind if a movie tries to be a hybrid- in fact, some of the movies I love best are hybrids-

Ghost is a hybrid of pretty much every genre, and manages to be fantastic.